Data Analytics Contracts in London

Data Analytics
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 201 192
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 155 200 366
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.24% 1.12% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.27% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 153 255
10th Percentile £316 £370 £375
25th Percentile £431 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £744 £650 £650
90th Percentile £872 £748 £775
England median daily rate £528 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.09% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £26.50 £24.65
25th Percentile £33.25 £28.75 £24.88
Median hourly rate £34.50 £32.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +20.37% -28.00%
75th Percentile £35.75 £36.25 £35.63
90th Percentile - £38.50 £39.30
England median hourly rate £21.75 £41.25 £40.25
% change year-on-year -47.27% +2.48% +22.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in London

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in London

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in London

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in London

Data Analytics
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analytics within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +3 25 £545 -2.68% 13
West London +15 5 £394 -22.22% 14
South London - 1 - - 2
Data Analytics
England

Data Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (6.45%) Confluence
2 7 (4.52%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.58%) Apache
4 2 (1.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.29%) CMS
4 2 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.29%) SAS
4 2 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 12 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.29%) Magento
2 2 (1.29%) Relativity
2 2 (1.29%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.29%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.65%) Actimize
3 1 (0.65%) Demantra
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.65%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 46 (29.68%) Power Platform
2 27 (17.42%) Azure
3 24 (15.48%) AWS
4 13 (8.39%) GCP
4 13 (8.39%) PowerApps
5 8 (5.16%) Snowflake
6 7 (4.52%) dbt
7 6 (3.87%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.87%) SaaS
8 5 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (3.23%) Serverless
9 4 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (2.58%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.94%) GitHub
10 3 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) DNS
1 1 (0.65%) HTTP
1 1 (0.65%) Internet
1 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.29%) Power BI
2 20 (12.90%) Tableau
3 12 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (6.45%) Relational Database
5 9 (5.81%) Data Lake
6 8 (5.16%) BigQuery
7 7 (4.52%) Looker
8 6 (3.87%) Big Data
8 6 (3.87%) BusinessObjects
8 6 (3.87%) KDB
8 6 (3.87%) Kdb+
8 6 (3.87%) Metadata
9 4 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.58%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.58%) MS Access
10 3 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.29%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (9.03%) JIRA
2 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.29%) Git
3 2 (1.29%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) Appium
4 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.65%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.65%) Selenium
4 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.65%) Vite
4 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 67 (43.23%) Social Skills
2 60 (38.71%) Finance
3 42 (27.10%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (13.55%) Banking
5 13 (8.39%) Investment Banking
6 9 (5.81%) Marketing
7 7 (4.52%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.23%) Legal
10 4 (2.58%) Front Office
10 4 (2.58%) Retail
11 3 (1.94%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.29%) Advertising
12 2 (1.29%) Electronics
12 2 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.29%) Publishing
12 2 (1.29%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (23.23%) Analyst
2 20 (12.90%) Data Analyst
3 19 (12.26%) Architect
3 19 (12.26%) Data Engineer
4 17 (10.97%) Data Manager
5 16 (10.32%) Developer
6 15 (9.68%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.45%) Insight Manager
8 9 (5.81%) Data Business Analyst
8 9 (5.81%) Project Manager
9 7 (4.52%) Lead
9 7 (4.52%) Senior
10 6 (3.87%) KDB Developer
11 5 (3.23%) Analyst Developer
11 5 (3.23%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.23%) Qualitative Analyst
11 5 (3.23%) Quantitative Analyst
11 5 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.58%) Product Manager
12 4 (2.58%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.87%) PySpark
2 3 (1.94%) CSS
2 3 (1.94%) HTML
2 3 (1.94%) Kafka
2 3 (1.94%) React
3 2 (1.29%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.29%) RESTful
3 2 (1.29%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.29%) XHTML
4 1 (0.65%) .NET
4 1 (0.65%) boto
4 1 (0.65%) GatsbyJS
4 1 (0.65%) HTML5
4 1 (0.65%) ISPF
4 1 (0.65%) LDAP
4 1 (0.65%) Node.js
4 1 (0.65%) Parceljs
4 1 (0.65%) React Native
4 1 (0.65%) Sass
4 1 (0.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.10%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.81%) Equities
2 9 (5.81%) Fixed Income
3 8 (5.16%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.58%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.94%) Digital Media
6 3 (1.94%) FMCG
6 3 (1.94%) Pricing Data
6 3 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.29%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.29%) IoT
7 2 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.29%) Social Media
7 2 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.81%) Linux
2 3 (1.94%) Unix
3 1 (0.65%) Windows
3 1 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (100.00%) Analytics
2 45 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (25.16%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (22.58%) Agile
5 31 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 30 (19.35%) Visualisation
7 29 (18.71%) Data Analysis
8 27 (17.42%) Data Modelling
9 23 (14.84%) ETL
10 21 (13.55%) Data Governance
10 21 (13.55%) Data Science
10 21 (13.55%) Project Management
11 19 (12.26%) Data Management
12 18 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (10.97%) Data Engineering
14 16 (10.32%) Actionable Insight
14 16 (10.32%) DevOps
15 14 (9.03%) Computer Science
15 14 (9.03%) Machine Learning
16 13 (8.39%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 57 (36.77%) SQL
2 43 (27.74%) Python
3 14 (9.03%) Java
4 10 (6.45%) C++
5 7 (4.52%) R
6 3 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.94%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.29%) Bash
7 2 (1.29%) PHP
7 2 (1.29%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.65%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.65%) Go
8 1 (0.65%) JCL
8 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.65%) REXX
8 1 (0.65%) Scala
8 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (16.13%) Degree
2 12 (7.74%) SC Cleared
2 12 (7.74%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.81%) PMI Certification
3 9 (5.81%) PMP
4 7 (4.52%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.87%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.94%) CBAP
6 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.29%) CSPO
7 2 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.29%) PhD
8 1 (0.65%) ACCA
8 1 (0.65%) CAPM
8 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.65%) PgMP
8 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.45%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.58%) MiFID
3 4 (2.58%) PMO
4 2 (1.29%) COBIT
4 2 (1.29%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (1.29%) EMIR
4 2 (1.29%) GDPR
4 2 (1.29%) NIST
5 1 (0.65%) COSO
5 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.65%) QA
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (0.65%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 5 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.58%) Terraform
3 3 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.45%) Databricks
2 10 (6.45%) Google
3 9 (5.81%) SAP
4 6 (3.87%) Oracle
5 3 (1.94%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.94%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.94%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.29%) Adobe
6 2 (1.29%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.29%) Facebook
6 2 (1.29%) Foundry
6 2 (1.29%) Palantir
6 2 (1.29%) Splunk
6 2 (1.29%) Wrike
6 2 (1.29%) YouTube
7 1 (0.65%) Aderant
7 1 (0.65%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.65%) IBM